Show MURDER M DECLARED BY GANGS chicago A moratorium on murder d e r has haa been declared in the chicago underworld by gangster chief tallis and their di district captains at it a recent peace conference hold held in I 1 a north side hotel it has boon been all authoritatively learned recently tile the pence pea co conference con forence heu heij in utmost secrecy and without benefit of legal nut authority hority was waa attended by 19 persons including a neutral intermediary nied lary through whom the ine meeting eting was negotiated at the instigation ot of borno 0 tho the bigger operators chiefly interested interest pl in tile tho promotion of the death moratorium euln were allie gangsters who are heavily interested te tn in brewer breweries les manufacturing legalized door beer tind and who tear fear alint an outbreak of crime at this tilleo would throw jj spotlight of unwelcome publicity on oil their enterprise and anil tilts thua eaf endanger janger their licenses to legal beer which Is proving a lucrative substitute for their lost bootlegging ond and hijacking business fear probe by federal officers it was feared among underworld operators that gang now with beer and liquor legalized would bring about thorough In incesti vesti i lations oy by both federal state authorities find and that discovery of 0 i gangster hookups in legitimate bi breweries would cause great embarrassment emi barrass barras I 1 ent not only to themselves hilt but to many stable and so called 10 honest nest businessmen who have gong gone into the beer manufacturing business with gangster money and who aro are acting as a front tor for the racketeers 11 when 32 3 2 beer first became legalized some of these gangsters sent out their salesmen leamen aa to induce beer gardens all and tavern to sell bell their beer in preference to that of competitors their high pressure talk was effective fe in sol coteral veral cases but where lt it was wag not they let it be understood that other things such as machine guns guna and bombs broken plate glass windows and an intimidation of customers would follow lt it their particular brand of beer bear did not become the hause brand in ninny many cases it worked in other others tl they ey did not and the operations of 0 the gang con controlled strolled trolled bre brew erlea be came known to td the state and federal authorities investigations started and the managements of the pang gang operated breweries were warned by the authorities ties that high pressure sales mansilp backed by machine guns would not do and coupled with that there was waa always the constant threat of a revocation ot of o t license EL a throat threat which in the case of a brewery Is most serious for it means tile the typing up tip of huge property by the more mere order of the all authorities thorit ties les many interested in legal beer one of the delegates tit at tile the recent peace conference said to be chief sponsor of 0 the parley Is financially nanci ally interested in no less than three large breweries in chicago and vicinity another Is solo sole owner of one important brewery and part owner I 1 of another nearly all of the 18 gangsters present were in some way or another interested in the lie manufacture of legal beer since the legalization of beer I 1 the me gangsters have come to that strong arm tactics in ID inducing beverage dealers to sell their beer lii in preference prefer to another are tar far moro more serious now and carry more selous consequences than before repeal because the authorities always hold tile the right to r revoke voke licenses and close down the pla plants tits competition among gangster brewers was wag very keen at the bo be rf nning of legal beer 1 manufacture ind and they began to rule rula this trade by tho the gun as aa they had done illegal beer before soon however they discovered that tt it would not do una and hence this conference ot of peace |